Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition

A detailed exploration of Ben Jonson's relationship with his single most enduring and significant literary model, Horace.

List of contents

Introduction: imitation, allusion, translation: reading Jonson's Horace; 1. Jonson's Odes: Horatian lyric presence and the dialogue with Pindar; 2. Horatian libertas in Jonson's epigrams and epistles; 3. Competing voices in Jonson's verse satires: Horace and Juvenal; 4. Poetaster: classical translation and cultural authority; 5. Translating Horace, translating Jonson; Conclusion: More Remov'd Mysteries: Jonson's textual 'occasions'; Appendix: Manuscript transcriptions.

About the author

Victoria Moul is a lecturer in Latin language and literature at King's College London. She works on various aspects of the interpretation of classical poetry in both ancient and more modern literature.

Summary

Victoria Moul investigates Ben Jonson's important relationship with his most significant literary model, Horace. Exploring the textual foundations of this relationship, the book also addresses the lasting impact of Jonson's Horatianism, and his classicism more generally, upon the literary and political culture of the early and mid-seventeenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Moul, Victoria (Lecturer in Latin Language and Lit Moul, Moul Victoria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2016
• EAN: 9781316501641
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50164-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights